Xilinx, Inc. is an American technology company and is primarily a supplier of programable logic devices. It is known for inventing the field-programming gate array and as the semicondcutot company that created the first fabless manufacturing model. Ross Freeman, Bernard Vonderschmitt, and James V Barnett II, former employees of Zilog, an integrated circuit and solid-state device manufacturer, co-founded Xilinx in 1984 with headquarters in San Jose, USA.